Re: Compiling with or without extcap

[Roland Knall <rknall () gmail com>]

We had this discussion a bung of times. I have nothing against having a
preference, but I am very much against making not-loading extcap the
default. New users should not face a hassle to enable a capture interface,
but existing users, who wish to improve the performance in any way, can
profit from an option doing exactly that.

So +1 on making this option available big -1 on making it default to
not-loading

cheers

On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 10:21 PM, Dario Lombardo <dario.lombardo.ml () gmail com
> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 12:02 AM, Stig Bjørlykke <stig () bjorlykke org>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 7:15 PM, Dario Lombardo <
> > dario.lombardo.ml () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > What about an environment variable that disable extcap interfaces
> > > loading?
> >
> > Or even better; a UI configurable preference to enable/disable extcap
> > interfaces.
> >
> > This should be default on.  When turned on or off it will automatically
> > run a "Refresh Interfaces" to load/unload extcap interfaces without having
> > to manually restart or "Refresh Interfaces".
> >
> > Sounds good!
> I'm working on 3 separate patches:
> 1) remove extcap ifdefs
> 2) prevent extcap loading based on env variable (during the review process
> we can decide whether to keep this or not)
> 3) prevent extcap loading based on pref.
>
> For the last one I'm just missing how to properly refresh the interface
> list. I've called wsApp->refreshLocalInterfaces() but the list doesn't
> get refreshed. Can you give it a look?
> Thanks.
> Dario.
>
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